Burkes Properties Limited is a family-run company that has owned and managed commercial premises on Burkes Parade, in the heart of Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, for more than ninety years.
Rather than scale for its own sake, the company holds a deliberately compact portfolio, built on close attention to each building and each tenancy, as a foundation for considered growth into new areas.
Decisions about the portfolio are made by the people who own it, with day-to-day property management carried out by the company's dedicated property manager.
The company's interest is in durable ownership rather than short-term trading — maintaining buildings, and relationships with tenants, well beyond a single lease cycle.
Burkes Properties Limited is a family-run business with roots on Burkes Parade spanning more than ninety years. The Mayne family lived in the buildings and ran Mayne & Sons, a long-established shop selling hardware, electrical goods, records, china and glassware, garden tools, and cycles — before the business turned to ownership and letting. Across three generations, the family has cared for the same stretch of the town's historic high street — a small but enduring contribution to the character and continuity of Beaconsfield's centre.
For many years the family lived in the buildings and traded as Mayne & Sons, selling hardware, electrical goods, records, china, garden tools, and cycles from the parade.
Established retail and commercial premises on two adjoining streets in the centre of Beaconsfield.
The family cherishes the history of these buildings, and takes pride in caring for them as part of the parade's story.
